US National Security Strategy: Energy to the Poor

The US National Security Strategy released yesterday, states:

• Climate policies will continue to shape the global energy system. 
• U.S. leadership is indispensable to countering an anti-growth energy agenda that is detrimental to U.S. economic and energy security interests. 
• Given future global energy demand, much of the developing world will require fossil fuels, as well as other forms of energy, to power their economies and lift their people out of poverty. The United States will continue to advance an approach that balances energy security, economic development, and environmental protection. 
• The United States will remain a global leader in reducing traditional pollution, as well as greenhouse gases, while expanding our economy. 
• This achievement, which can serve as a model to other countries, flows from innovation, technology breakthroughs, and energy efficiency gains, not from onerous regulation.

We read that the US will counter the anti-growth energy agenda of the rich world embraced by Obama-Merkel and now also Macron along with rich Sweden (see previous post), which is detrimental to US interests as well as to those of the developing world in need of fossil fuels to lift their people out of poverty.

This is Trumps Christmas present to the world and represents a truly remarkable case of independent thinking, probably based on a gut feeling that the scientific support of CO2 alarmism is very weak and thus it is pointless and immoral to require the poor people of the world to stay poor.

Sweden as the First Fossil Free Society

The Independent reported in May 2016 that

• Sweden phases out fossil fuels in attempt to run completely off renewable energy:
• Sweden's prime minister announced his country will work towards becoming 'one of the first fossil fuel-free welfare states of the world'.

But we are not yet there; Swedes emit more CO2 in 2017 than in 2016, and so it may take a while before the declaration is turned into reality... 

What will then the Swedish fossil-free society look like? One thing appears clear: It will also be a (welfare) state which is poor-people-free, since only the rich can survive in a fossil-free society. What a happy society is awaiting all the people of Sweden: both fossil-free and poor-people-free and then why not highly educated bad-manner-free as well? What beautiful model for the rest of the world barely surviving on 80% fossil fuel subject to all sorts of uneducated bad manner.

                    The rich educated people of Sweden looking forward to the joy of fossil-free money.

More Voodoo Physics

In the preceding post I gave an example of inventing fictional physics by misinterpreting the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus to have a physical meaning as a Stefan-Boltzmann radiation law in the form

• $\int_{T_1}^{T_2}f(\nu )\, d\nu =F(T_2)-F(T_1)$   

where $F(T)=\sigma T^4$ is a primitive function of a Planck spectrum $f(\nu )>0$ depending on frequency $\nu$ satisfying $\frac{dF}{d\nu}=f$. Here 

• $Q=\int_{T_1}^{T_2}f(\nu )\, d\nu$

is the one-way physical radiative heat energy flux from a warm body at temperature $T_2$ to a colder body at temperature $T_2$ expressed as an integral of a spectral radiance, with integration limits scaling with temperature reflecting Wien's displacement law. The misinterpretation is to say that 

• $Q = \sigma T_2^4 - \sigma T_1^4$

thus expressing the one-way flux $Q$ from warm to cold, as the difference between two-way heat fluxes $\sigma T_2^4$ from warm to cold and $\sigma T_1^4$ from cold to warm, thus freely inventing two-way heat fluxes from one-way physical heat flux.

The arbitrariness of this invention is expressed by the fact the primitive function $F$ is only determined up to a constant (which cancels in the subtraction). Two-way back-and-forth heat fluxes of any size can thus be freely invented, which by itself is too good to be true physics.  

Another example is Einsteins misinterpretation of the Lorentz transformation of mathematical space-time coordinates to have direct physical meaning as distortions of physical space and time, in direct violation of the dictum by Lorentz when introducing his transformation as a mathematical formality without physical meaning. The consequences of this misinterpretation are far-reaching as the revolution (distortion) of our concepts of space and time being forced upon us by the modernity of Einstein's physics. The Nobel Prize in Physics this year to the LIGO recording over a fraction of second of "ripples in the fabric of space-time" of size a fraction of an atomic nucleus over
a distance of the diameter of the Earth from the supposed merger of two black holes 1.3 billion years ago, is a recent example of the grip of a model over reality overwhelming a whole physics community.

The idea of the quantum computer is similarly based on giving the multi-dimensional statistical non-physical Schrödinger equation a direct physical meaning, again in direct violation to the dictum of Schrödinger when introducing his equation. And the quantum computer is still fictional despite major efforts to make it into any from of reality...

All these examples can be viewed to represent Voodoo Physics in the sense of being based on misinterpreting operations on a a doll model to have real physical results.

Here are two quotes by Max Born (Nobel Prize in Physics 1954) expressing the non-physical aspects of Einstein's special theory of relativity expressed in the Lorentz transformation:

• Length contraction and time dilation are ways of regarding things and do not correspond to physical reality.
•  It is hardly possible to illustrate Einstein’s kinematics by means of models.

The counter argument is that Maxwell predicted the existence of electro-magnetic waves from the presence of waves in his model equations, and so Voodoo physics can be real physics. That is right, but it does not say that all Voodoo physics is real physics, as for example:

Update of Talk at Climate Sense 2018: Voodoo Physics

I have put up an new version of my upcoming talk at Climate Sense 2018 with the title:

• IPCC Voodoo Physics of the Greenhouse Effect

Of particular focus is the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus stating that if $F(x)$ is a primitive function of $f(x)$, that is $\frac{dF}{dx}=f$, then 

• $\int_a^bf(x)\, dx = F(b) - F(a)$.

For example, if $f(x)=1$, then $F(x)=x$, and so we can formally write

• $1  = \int_{100}^{101} f(x)\, dx = F(101)-F(100)=101 - 100$ 

expressing the positive quantity $\int_{100}^{101} f(x) dx = 1$ as the difference between the two (large) numbers 101 and 100. This is mathematics and not yet physics.

The radiative flux of heat energy $Q$ from a warm body of temperature $T_2$ to a colder body of temperature $T_1 < T_2$ is (essentially) given by the integral

• $Q = \int_{T_1}^{T_2}f(\nu )\,d\nu$  

where $f(\nu )$ is the Planck spectrum with $\nu$ frequency. Here the limits of the integral scale with temperature reflecting the cut-off in frequency expressed by Wien's displacement law giving the
warm body the "overkill" spectrum $f(\nu )$ above the cut-off $T_1$ for the cold body, with the overkill effectively causing the heating while the shared spectrum below cut-off has no heating effect, as explained in more detail here.

With $F(T)=\sigma T^4$ and $F$ acting as a primitive function of the Planck function $f$, the radiative flux $Q$ can now according to the Fundamental Theorem formally be expressed in the form of the Stefan-Boltzmann Law

• $Q =  \sigma T_2^4 - \sigma T_1^4$      

thus formally expressing the positive quantity $Q$ as the difference between two (large) numbers $\sigma T_2^4$ and $\sigma T_1^4$. 

The Voodoo Physics of the Greenhouse Effect is the result of giving the mathematical identity

• $\int_{T_1}^{T_2}f(\nu )\,d\nu =  \sigma T_2^4 - \sigma T_1^4$

a physical meaning with the physical one-way flux $Q=\int_{T_1}^{T_2}f(\nu )\,d\nu$ expressed as the difference between the entities $F(T_2)=\sigma T_2^4$ and $F(T_1)=\sigma T_1^4$, now freely invented to be forms of two-way "radiative fluxes" back-and-forth between the bodies. From one-way physical flux are thus created two-way fluxes from a mathematical identity without any proper physical correspondence. Note in particular that $F$ as primitive function of $f$ is undetermined up to a constant, thus allowing fictitious back-and-forth fluxes of any magnitude.

Note that $F(T)=\sigma T^4$ can be interpreted physically as the one-way radiative flux from a body of temperature $T$ into a background at 0 K.  But the physics is missing of viewing the one-way radiative flux between two bodies as a difference between two separate fluxes into a background at 0 K.   

A property (identity) of a mathematical model is thus freely interpreted to be real physics, in the same way as an operation of a voodoo doll is believed to be able to have a real effect on a real person. 

This is nothing but Voodoo Physics, and this is the nature of the Greenhouse Effect based on Back Radiation from cold to warm underlying the CO2-alarmism so forcefully preached by IPCC with now Macron as ardent follower.

Macron, despite (or maybe thanks to) his education in French elite schools with all its mathematics, thus appears to be overwhelmed by the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus and cannot separate model from reality.  

                       Voodoo = operation on model believed to have real effect on real person.

PS The Pyrgeometer is a perfect example of a voodoo doll, reporting (non-physical) back radiation $\sigma T_1^4$ from a cold atmosphere at $T_1$ to warmer Earth surface at $T_2$, by measuring $Q$ and (erroneously) viewing $\sigma T_2^4$ to be radiation from the Earth surface, as
if the Earth surface was radiating directly to surrounding space at 0 K and not to the atmosphere at $T_1$ K.

You can buy a pyrgeometer from Kipp and Zonen and play with it as a voodoo doll believing it reports real physics if you want to sell CO2-alarmism. From the above analysis you may understand that in fact it represents a symbiosis of science and commercial industry serving CO2-alarmism by supplying fictional physics.

Talk at Climate Sense 2018

I have put up a preliminary version of my talk at Climate Sense 2018 for inspection.

Physics Needs Help

Eric Weinstein delivers as a Big Think the message that

• Physics needs a new lone genius.
• Do we need a radical rethinking?
• Is there something wrong with the fundamentals?
• Is Einstein in fact wrong to slip in space-time?
• But the question is, why are they (the physics community) stumped?
• Is it (the help) going to come from some completely strange source, maybe somebody who is a self-teacher off the grid (like Einstein or Weinstein)?

Is there any reason to listen to (W)einstein, as an outsider? Yes, why not? The scene is open. In particular, Einstein's space-time mix appears to be a stumbling block and may well be ready for revision...compare with Many-Minds Relativity...

Undantagstillstånd Behöver Inte Alls Utlysas!

Klimat eller CO2-alarmismen går på högvarv i Expressen och i SvD med följande budskap:

• Demokratin måste pausas för att lösa klimatkrisen.

Anders Wijkman lägger ut texten:

• Fördelen med ett centraliserat toppstyrt system är att när de väl bestämmer sig så går det ganska snabbt. Det finns ingen opposition som bråkar.

SvD fortsätter:

• En annan förespråkare för ett slags ”klimatdiktatur” är Jørgen Randers som är professor i klimatstrategi vid Handelshögskolan BI i Oslo. Hans huvudpoäng är att problemen med den globala uppvärmningen är så allvarliga och akuta att vi inte kan invänta att demokratin får ha sin gång.
• Randers slutsats blir alltså att ett elitstyre med flertalets bästa för ögonen vore den ultimata lösningen i kampen för klimatet. Men han tillstår att det är svårt att hitta ett ord som inte skrämmer folk.

Mot detta kan ställas Climate Sense 2018 som ger en helt annan bild av verkligheten: CO2-alarmismen saknar vetenskaplig grund och är ett uppdiktat hot som tjänar krafter som vill knäcka det demokratiska samhället byggt på vetenskap och humanism.

Climate Sense 2018

The Program for the upcoming Nordic Conference on Climate: Climate Sense 2018, February 16-17, Mölndal, features myself among prominent people in the first session (slides for my talk will  soon be posted):

Regeringen: Sveriges Bäst i Världen på Digitalisering: Matte-IT

Regeringskansliet meddelar att Sveriges Regering har beslutat att

• Sverige ska vara bäst i världen på att tillvarata digitaliseringens möjligheter.
• Utbildningspolitiken har en viktig roll att spela för att nå denna ambition. 
• Regeringen har därför tagit fram en nationell digitaliseringsstrategi för skolväsendet.

Detta är en uppföljning av Regeringens tidigare beslut att reformera skolmatematiken att omfatta programmering i enlighet med ny läroplan gällande fr o m HT18. Målet är på detta sätt ge alla elever grundkunskaper att tillvarata digitaliseringens möjligheter.

Matte-IT erbjuder en konkret realisering av denna nya läroplan som nytt läromedel i form av en syntes av matematik och programmering, se Presentation.

Klimatalarmism Möter Skepticism i StorMedia i Norge

Stavanger Aftenblad frågar sig idag följande i en mycket intressant och välskriven artikel där klimatalarmism möter skepticism:

• Styr vi vädret med bilen - eller gör Naturen det själv?

Tänk om en sådan artikel kunde publiceras i DN eller SvD. En tidsfråga förstås. Kanske imorgon?
Vad skulle effekten bli?

Se utförlig diskussion av artikeln hos Klimatrealistene.

Skollagen: Vetenskaplig Grund: Vem Bestämmer?

Skollagen Kap 1.5 säger att

• Utbildningen ska vila på vetenskaplig grund och beprövad erfarenhet.

I mina försök att reformera skolmatematiken har jag nu kommit till den punkt där jag vill pröva följande argument:

• Med vetenskaplig grund måste menas den vetenskap som dagens ledande forskare representerar.
• Skolans utbildning ska alltså vila på den vetenskapliga grund som dagens ledande forskare representerar.

Och ställa följande naturliga fråga:

• Innebär det att dagens ledande forskare skall ges direkt inflytande på skolans utbildning?    

Min erfarenhet hittills är att jag som (världs)ledande forskare inom tillämpad matematik och beräkningsmatematik inte har givits någon möjlighet till någon form av inflytande vad gäller skolmatematiken i Sverige. Trots min uttryckliga vilja därtill.

Kan detta vara i enlighet med Skollagens bestämmelse?  Om det inte är jag som ledande forskare som ges tolkningsföreträde vad gäller den vetenskapliga grund som skolans utbildning skall vila på, vem är det då som skall stå för denna tolkning? Är det icke-ledande forskare som skall stå för tolkningen? Vilka icke-ledande i så fall? Vilka som helst som är icke-ledande? 

Synpunkter emottages! Såklart, man kan hävda att mitt resonemang faller eftersom jag faktiskt inte är någon ledande forskare, men då kanske det i så fall måste visas?

Matte-IT = Konkret Realisering av Ny Läroplan med Programmering

Åsa Fahlén, ordförande i Lärarnas Riksförbund skriver med anledning av Skolverkets nya läroplaner med programmering som del av matematikundervisningen att följas senast ht18 (se också SVT-inslaget):

• Många matematiklärare saknar helt kunskap i programmering. 
• Sju av tio känner sig osäkra. Man kanske aldrig läst ämnet eller så behöver gamla kunskaper fräschas upp. 
• Många känner sig också osäkra på hur de ska lära ut ämnet.
• Det är jättesvårt att lära ut något man inte kan själv. 
• Ska eleverna få en bra utbildning måste vi ha välutbildade lärare som känner sig bekväma med det de ska lära ut. Här behövs ett nationellt ansvar. 
• Om vissa lärare får en bra fortbildning och andra inte får det så blir det ett likvärdighetsproblem för eleverna.

Mats Hansson, undervisningsråd på Skolverket, säger något helt annat:

• Skolverket menar att det finns styrdokument för vad som gäller, och ser inget problem med att kommunerna utbildar i egen regi. Det visar ju att de tar ansvar. 
• Jag är mer orolig för de kommuner som inte tagit tag i det. De måste se över sitt eget ansvar.
• Regeringen vill skjuta till tio extra miljoner nästa år för utbildningsbehovet. Skolverket menar att de gjort tillräckligt, och att det slutliga ansvaret för lärarnas utbildning vilar på varje huvudman.
• Vi tror att webbkurserna och de lärosäten som startar kurser täcker upp det behov som finns.

Åsa har kontakt med verkligheten och ser problemen, medan Mats gömmer sig bakom sitt skrivbord och lämnar matematikläraren åt sitt öde med en omöjlig uppgift och bara smulor som vidareutbildning.

Matte-IT erbjuder en lösning i form av en ny syntes av matematik + programmering, som gör matematiklärarens uppgift möjlig och ger eleven en meningsfull matematikundervisning i dagens IT-värld. 

Matte-IT kommer snart att lanseras som komplett läromedel för både lärares och elevers självstudier och förkovran, allt för att uppfylla den nya läroplanen med råge. 

Om Du är intresserad av våra barns framtid, ta en titt och ge gärna feed-back!

The Principles of Qspeak

Qspeak was the official language of Quantum Mechanics and had been devised to meet

the ideological needs of Modphys or Modern Physics. 

It was expected that Qspeak would have finally superseded Oldspeak (or Classical Physics, as we should call it) by about the year 2050. Meanwhile it gained ground steadily, all Party members tending to use Qspeak words and grammatical constructions more and more in their everyday speech. 

The purpose of Qspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Modphys, but to make all other modes of thought impossible. It was intended that when Qspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought — that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Modphys — should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words.

Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a Party member could properly wish to express, while excluding all other meanings and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods. This was done partly by the invention of new words, but chiefly by eliminating undesirable words and by stripping such words as remained of un-orthodox meanings, and so far as possible of all secondary meanings whatever. 

To give a single example. The word position still existed in Qspeak, but it could only be used in such statements as ’One cannot speak about the position of an electron’. 

It could not be used in its old sense of ’position here or there’ since position no longer existed even as concept, and were therefore of necessity nameless. Quite apart from the suppression of definitely heretical words, reduction of vocabulary was regarded as an end in itself, and no word that could be dispensed with was allowed to survive. 

Qspeak was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought, and this purpose was indirectly assisted by cutting the choice of words down to a minimum.

Qspeak was founded on the English language as we now know it, though many Qspeak sentences, even when not containing newly-created words, would be barely intelligible to an English-speaker of our own day:

• wave-function-collapse
• quantisation
• Hilbert-space
• mixed-state
• spin
• photon
• gluon
• lepton
• quark
• fermion
• boson
• baryon
• quit
• uncertainty-principle
• correspondence principle
• complementary principle
• exclusion principle
• superposition principle
• entanglement
• interference
• phase coherence
• plum pudding model
• hyperfine 
• bra-ket-notation
• mixed-state
• strangeness
• probability-amplitude
• matrix mechanics
• CP violation
• observables
• indistinguishable-particles
• intrinsically-identical-particles
• supersymmetry
• superpartner.

If needed The Party can use Qspeak in a form of Shut Up and Calculate, which eliminates any remaining tendency of heretical questioning.

If you think you understand Qspeak, you don't understand Qspeak. (Richard Feynman)

Those who are not shocked when they first come across Qspeak cannot possibly have understood it. (Niels Bohr)

 It is safe to say that nobody understands Qspeak. (Richard Feynman)

In physics we deal with states of affairs much simpler than those of psychology and yet we again and again learn that our task is not to investigate the essence of things—we do not at all know what this would mean; but to develop those concepts that allow us to speak with each other about the events of nature in a fruitful manner using Qspeak. (Niels Bohr)

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth, in Qspeak. (Niels Bohr)

When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer: There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about Nature, according to Qspeak. (Niels Bohr)

I think there is a moral to this story, namely that it is more important to have beauty in one’s equations in Qspeak than to have them fit experiment. (Paul Dirac)

Ny Webb-Sida för Matematik-IT

En ny webb-sida för Matematik-IT har öppnats:

• Matte-IT

Den nya sidan är under uppbyggnad med mål att göra presentationen mer tillgänglig för både elever och lärare, när nu Matematik-IT kommer att lanseras för en bredare publik. Budskapet finnes sammanfattat i denna  bild (Homo Sapiens Sapiens Faber Ludens)

Digitala Läromedel Kan Höja Skolresultat

DN tar idag upp studien Digital Tools in Education utgiven av SNS:

• Nationalekonomen Carla Haelermans sammanfattar lärdomar från den internationella forskningslitteraturen om digitala lärverktyg i skolan. 
• Hon har också genomfört åtta olika experiment på högstadieskolor i Nederländerna för att ta reda på hur de digitala verktygen påverkar elevernas skolresultat. 
• Hennes studier visar att användning av digitala lärverktyg bidrar till förbättrade skolresultat inom matematik och vissa delar av språkinlärning. 
• Störst nytta av digitala lärverktyg har lågpresterande elever. 
• Resultaten visar att det särskilt är möjligheterna till individanpassning av uppgifter som gör de digitala verktygen effektiva.

Detta visar att reformprogrammet Matematik-IT har vind i seglen. Matematik-IT fyller den nya läroplanen, med programmering som del av matematikundervisningen, med konkret innehåll. Och visst: Matematik-IT erbjuder helt nya möjligheter för lågpresterande elever att bli högpresterande, och för högpresterande att nå hur långt som helst.

America First Energy Conference Announced

This looks promising:

• The America First Energy Conference examining the scientific, economic, and political foundations of the America First Energy Plan will be gathering in Houston, Texas at the J.W. Marriott Hotel on Thursday, November 9, 2017.

LIGO vs Neo-Newtonian Cosmology

The Earth is pulled in the direction of the present position of the Sun at each  instant, right?

Let us continue our reflections on LIGO recalling my earlier post on Neo-Newtonian Cosmology as an alternative to Einstein's Cosmology based on Einstein's equations with related posts here and the discussion about The Hen and the Egg.

In Neo-Newtonian Cosmology a gravity potential $\phi (x,t)$ (depending on an Euclidean space coordinate $x$ and time $t$) is connected to mass distribution $\rho (x,t)$ through Poisson's equation

• $\Delta\phi =\rho $

which is interpreted as creation of mass $\rho$ by the action of $\Delta$ upon the gravitational potential $\phi$ through a local instant operation of differentiation.  

This is different from the standard interpretation in Newtonian cosmology with instead the gravitational potential $\phi$ created from mass $\rho$ by instant action at distance corresponding to solving or integrating Poisson's equation, as if gravitational force/potential is propagated at infinite speed. We thus have: 

• Neo-Newtonian Cosmology: matter created from gravitational potential by instant local action.
• Newtonian Cosmology: gravitational potential created from mass by instant action at distance.

Now, the big mystery of Newtonian Gravitation/Cosmology is the instant action at distance, which with the optics of Neo-Newtonian Cosmology is a fictional problem, which thus can be replaced by local instant action, with the mystery of instant action at distance eliminated. 

The beauty with both Newtonian and Neo-Newtonian Cosmology, as compared with Einstein's, is that motion of the Earth around the Sun gets an theoretical explanation agreeing with the following observation:

• The Earth accelerates at each instant of time in the direction of the present position of the Sun as if the action of the Sun is instant at distance.  

In particular, the Earth does not accelerate in the direction where the Sun is seen, since that position through the finite speed of light, has a delay of 8 minutes. The difference comes out in the thought experiment that the Sun suddenly disappears into nothing: In Neo-Newtonian Cosmology that would mean the instant disappearance of the gravitational field and thus leave the Earth instantly continuing in the tangent direction, while with finite speed of propagation of gravitational force created at distance by the mass of the Sun, that would take 8 minutes and the path would then be different.

In Einstein' Cosmology gravitation is propagated with the finite speed of light, but that does not seem to be the case for the Sun-Earth system.  Right?

Recall that Einstein was obsessed with choice of coordinates in both the special and general theory, as  if this choice has anything to do with physics, as if physics carries around coordinate systems imprinted in the "fabric of space-time" as the name of the game. But coordinate systems are inventions/conventions made by humans and not the Creator of the World, who had no need of such things when putting things together and letting it go...

LI(e)GO Nobel Physics?

The detected signal of amplitude $10^{-22}$ lasting a fraction of a second supposedly coming from collision of the most violent event of a merger of two massive black holes 1.3 billion years ago.

With the announcement today of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics:

• "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves"
• On 14 September 2015, the universe’s gravitational waves were observed for the very first time. The waves, which were predicted by Albert Einstein a hundred years ago, came from a collision between two black holes. It took 1.3 billion years for the waves to arrive at the LIGO detector in the USA. 
• The signal was extremely weak when it reached Earth, but is already promising a revolution in astrophysics. Gravitational waves are an entirely new way of observing the most violent events in space and testing the limits of our knowledge.

I cannot refrain from recalling my earlier posts on this issue posing some serious questions: How is it possible to connect a largest possible cause (collision/merger of two black holes) to a smallest possible effect (measurement with precision of the thickness of a hair on a distance of 4 light years) according to Einstein's equations which are not understood and cannot be solved, and as an inverse problem draw conclusion about the very big cause from the very small effect? Compare with these questions. See also this detailed criticism. And this analysis with comment here. Also this.

If gravitational waves exist as "ripples in the fabric of space-time", whatever that means, why are they so incredibly tiny? And if they now are so incredibly tiny, what importance do they carry? Can they really be used as carriers of specific information?

LIGO is an example of Big Physics in the sense of Building a Biggest Possible Detector for detection of a Smallest Possible Effect from a Biggest Possible Cause.

Of course, if you build a Biggest Detector like LIGO in search of Smallest Possible Effect, it is only a question of time before you discover Some Small Effect.

But how can you go from there to a Unique Big Cause?

To me it seems to require a mathematical model of infinite precision, and what says that Einstein's (unsolvable) equations carry that precision?

In any case, I remain skeptical until more evidence is presented.  Here is the story we are supposed to buy. Is this real physics, or is it fake physics?

In Advanced Information (about LIGO) we further read:

• Gravitational waves are travelling ripples in space-time.
• A passing gravitational wave is expected to distort space-time through the effects of strain in a very specific way, predicted by the general theory of relativity.
• It is easy to reproduce these results qualitatively without detailed calculations using the full power of general relativity.
• The most likely interpretation for this evolution is the inspiral of two orbiting massive bodies, while emitting gravitational radiation.

We see several caveats: "ripples of space.time", "predicted by the general theory", "it is easy...without detailed calculation using the full power...", "the most likely"...

As soon as you hear "it is easy" concerning a mathematical equation, you should be on your guard...since usually it means the opposite...

Update of Real Quantum Mechanics: Electron vs Kernel

I have made a discovery resolving an issue with poor correspondence between theory and observation in the new approach to quantum mechanics termed realQM presented here and here and here.

In the original setting of realQM the same set-up was used as in the standard version of quantum mechanics based on the Schrödinger equation as concerns the kernel assumed to act like a point source with no extension with a corresponding potential $-Z/r$ with $Z$ the kernel charge and $r$ the distance to the kernel, thus with a singularity at the kernel with $r=0$.

In this setting realQM gave a ground state energy for Helium (with two electrons meeting the kernel) of about -3.0 which was substantially lower than the observed -2.9034.

Something was thus wrong with realQM in this original form, and I could not figure out what. I have now understood that this mismatch comes from the kernel singularity which, like all singularities, introduces a dark horse into the model, which has to be handled properly to not lead astray. It is thus natural to give the kernel a positive radius and study the dependence of the ground state energy on the kernel radius.

The question of the boundary condition for the electron as it meets the kernel at a positive radius then comes up, something which is hidden if the radius is zero. Recalling that the boundary condition on the free boundary separating different electrons is a homogeneous Neumann condition, it is natural to try the same condition for the kernel, understanding that it requires the kernel to have positive radius.

An alternative is to use a Robin boundary condition of the form $\frac{\partial\phi}{\partial r}=-Z\phi$ for a positive radius. This is the effective condition at zero radius built into the Schrödinger equation with a point source kernel.

And indeed, both approaches seem to work (very similarly) as recorded in the above references.

More specifically, the kernel radius (which comes out to be small (of size 0.05 - 0.01 atomic units for kernel charge 2-10) can be used as a model parameter, which can be adjusted to give exact agreement with observations as a calibration of the realQM model for two electron ions, which can serve to build a model with more electrons in outer shells.

The model of realQM thus opens to inspection of the inner mechanics of an atom, including information on the effective radius of the kernel as seen by an electron in the innermost shell, something which is hidden to direct experimental observation.

We recall that standard quantum mechanics stdQM does not offer a physical model of the atom and thus with stdQM the inner mechanics of an atom is closed to human understanding, a defect made into a virtue in the Copenhagen interpretation of stdQM filling text books.

The Future in CFD is Already Here

The following two documents describe the vision of state-of-the-art of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD):

• CFD Vision Study: A Path to Revolutionary Computational Aerosciences
• Future Directions in Computational Fluid Dynamics 

The breakthrough of the G2/Unicorn/FEniCS fluid solver at the 3rd AIAA  HighLift Prediction Workshop (HighLiftPW-3) as documented here (and commented on at The Secret of Flight), shows that the future is already here! 

More specifically G2/Unicorn/FEniCS today delivers what is described as Grand Challenge Problem 1: 

• LES of a powered aircraft configuration across the full flight envelope. 
• This case focuses on the ability of CFD to simulate the flow about a complete aircraft geometry at the critical corners of the flight envelope including low-speed approach and takeoff conditions, transonic buffet, and possibly undergoing dynamic maneuvers, where aerodynamic performance is highly dependent on the prediction of turbulent flow phenomena such as smooth body separation and shock-boundary layer interaction.

This is made possible by a combination of the following elements:

1. Euler/Navier-Stokes as parameter free model for high Reynolds number flow.
2. Slip boundary condition as basic simple parameter-free wall model.
3. Time resolved computational solution by G2 as residual-stabilised finite element solver.
4. Automatic turbulence model from computational residual stabilisation.
5. Automatic residual-based tetrahedral mesh adaptivity.
6. Automatic duality-based output error control.

LES by G2/Unicorn/FEniCS of a powered aircraft configuration across the full flight envelope. 

Lärarna Måste Få Lära Sig Programmera

Lärarnas Riksförbund säger det självklara när nu programmering skall ingå som del av matematikundervisningen:

• Lärarna i matematik måste få lära sig att programmera.
• Hur ska lärarna kunna undervisa i ett ämne de inte behärskar?
• För att satsningen på programmering i skolan ska lyckas måste lärarna först utbildas, enligt Åsa Fahlén, ordförande Lärarnas Riksförbund.
• Det är framför allt matematiklärarna som kommer att få krav på sig att undervisa i programmering. Det innebär ett helt nytt område för många och därför behövs det utbildning.
• När Lärarnas Riksförbund frågar matematiklärare i grundskolan hur de känner inför det nya innehållet svarar mer än åtta av tio lärare att de känner sig osäkra på hur de ska undervisa.
• Det visar sig att nästan sju av tio matematiklärare i högstadiet och fyra av tio lärare i gymnasieskolan inte har någon utbildning alls i programmering. 
• Ytterst få lärare i matematik har läst programmering inom sin lärarutbildning. 
• Några har läst det inom andra högskoleutbildningar, några har lärt sig det genom andra kurser, men även de som har läst och har kunnat programmera upplever att de har föråldrade kunskaper i ämnet samt att de saknar metodiken, det vill säga hur man lär ut ämnet.
• Det behövs därför en statligt finansierad akademisk utbildning för lärarna som ska undervisa i programmering. Lärarna måste få utbildning dels i ämnet programmering, dels i hur man undervisar i programmering. Denna utbildning ska självklart skötas av universitet och högskolor, precis som den ordinarie lärarutbildningen gör.

Det är här mitt program Matematik-IT kommer in. Läs och begrunda.

Faktaresistens, Onda Krafter ock Klimatförändringar

Filosofiska Rummet i Sveriges Radio tar idag upp temat Kunskapsresistens med utgångspunkt från Åsa Wikforss bok Alternativa Fakta, Om Kunskap och dess Fiender, utgående från följande analys presenterad av programledaren: 

• Frågan om politiken, polariseringen, de sociala medierna och kanske även våra mänskliga kognitiva förmågor, hur allt detta samspelar i skapande av näthat, konspirationsteorier, beskyllningar om lögn och politiskt korrekta mantran, helt enkelt en kris för begrepp som sant och falskt, rätt och fel.
• Den frågan är för och brännande intressant  för att vi skall kunna släppa den. Filosofen Åsa Wikforss kommande bok handlar om detta som har kommit att kallas alternativa fakta, och bokens underrubrik lyder Om Kunskapen och dess Fiender. Det handlar om fakta och om faktaresistens, om evidens, sanning och lögn men också om en demokrati i gungning. 

Åsa Wikfors lägger ut texten om varför hon skrev boken i Sveriges Radio och UR Samtiden: Faktaresistens och Alternativa Fakta:

• Droppen var när dom började tala om alternativa fakta, då tänkte jag att nä nu får det vara nog: när centrala påståenden om kunskap och sanning och evidens ifrågasätts på olika sätt, då kände jag att då får en filosof gå in och bidra på olika sätt. 
• Det faktum att vi i grunden är rationella utnyttjas också av onda krafter...De desinformationskampanjer som oljeindustrin har ägnas sig har varit effektiva....och fått oss att ifrågasätta vetenskaplig evidens genom att sprida det falska påståendet att vetenskapliga experter är inte ense om att mänsklig aktivitet orsakar klimatförändringar.

Vi kan här se hur Sveriges Radio och TV säljer det nya begreppet "faktaresistens" som kopplas till ledord som "kunskapen och dess fiender", "onda krafter", "näthat" och "konspirationsteorier" med skepticism till klimatalarmism (framförd av "klimatförnekare") som skräckexempel.

Åsa har ingen kunskap om jordens klimat, men låter sig villigt från sin akademiska position som filosof ingå i den statligt understödda propaganda som hjärntvättar svenska folket, där till vokabulären med "klimatförnekare" nu kan läggas  "faktaresistens" och "kunskapens fiender".

Hur har det kunnat bli så galet Åsa att det är Dig själv Du beskriver med dessa ord? Varför sprider Du som filosof farlig politisk propaganda som om 1984 är vår tid? 

KTH Jagar "Klimatförnekare"

I en pressrelease sänder KTH följande budskap till svenska folket: Klimatförnekare stort problem även i Sverige. KTH tar i ordentligt:

• Vår erfarenhet är att förnekelse av vetenskap i klimatfrågan förekommer även i Sverige,
• Klimatförnekare finns inom fossilindustrin, i vissa tankesmedjor och bland populistiska politiker.
• Förnekelsen handlar bland annat om att det pågår en global uppvärmning, att människan bidrar till denna och att effekterna blir negativa.
• Forskningen om vetenskapsförnekelse avslöjar förnekarnas metoder, såsom att plocka russin ur kakan, förvanska statistik, uppträda med vilseledande kompetens eller ifrågasätta forskares motiv och finansiering. 
• Kränkande påhopp på forskare är inte ovanliga. På den politiska arenan sprids inte sällan grundlösa argument för att motverka en vetenskapsbaserad policy.
• Enligt KTH-forskarna behövs det nu nya grepp för att motverka vetenskapsförnekelse. 
• I forskarnas studie redovisar de olika strategier som föreslagits inom forskningen, men de ser att det saknas mer precis kunskap om varför politiken ibland lyckas hantera vetenskapsförnekelse, och ibland inte. Därför är det viktigt att fortsätta undersöka frågan i nya studier.

KTH beskriver då en person som min som "klimatförnekare" med en terminologi som andas avgrund.

Det finns ingen s k "klimatförnekare" som inte vet att jordens medeltemp har ökat ca 0.5-7 C de senaste 100 åren (knappast mätbart), i en återhämtning efter "lilla istiden", eller förnekar att människan har någon inverkan på jorden vi lever på, eller att det därav kan finnas negativa effekter. Vad en sådan person kan "förneka" är att jordens klimat låter sig styras med hjälp av flygskatt eller att det "fossilfria samhället" nu är ett lämpligt mål för mänskligheten (jfr föregående post). 

Problemet med press-releasen från KTH är att det andas censur: All skepsis till klimatalarmism skall  förbjudas! Detta är inte bra för KTH som vetenskaplig institution. KTH skall inte låta sig ledas in i rollen som språkrör för en klimatalarmism som bara är politik med tveksam vetenskaplig grund. Eller vad säger KTHs rektor och fakultetsråd?

PS1 SvD hakar på och trumpetar budskapet: Forskare: Farligt när vetenskapen förnekas.

PS2 Lennart Bengtsson (och Steven Jörsäter) ger replik i SvD Vetenskapen kring klimatet är inte avgjord:

• När det gäller klimatvetenskapen så stämmer det att de flesta beräkningar antyder ett samband mellan förhöjda halter växthusgaser som koldioxid och ett varmare klimat. 
• Hur starkt detta samband är debatteras fortfarande livligt. 
• Och vi vet att ett stort antal andra faktorer påverkar klimatet. Dit hör moln och partiklar som påverkar jordens strålningsbalans samt havens viktiga roll att reglera klimatet över lång tid.
• Inte minst spelar slumpen en stor roll som kan ge långvariga förändringar utan synbarlig anledning.
• Sammantaget har detta gett upphov till de många och kraftiga klimatförändringar som vi känner ifrån historien.

Här andas lite lätt skepsis till klimatalarmism, men bara lite: Det "flesta beräkningar antyder ett samband mellan mer CO2 och varmare klimat", som kan vara starkt, vem vet...och så faller Bengtssons kritik till marken...vilket väl kanske var avsikten... Bengtsson är ibland skeptiker ibland det motsatta tex som författare till ett uttalande av KVA som ger stöd åt IPCCs klimatalarmism...

Det hade varit bättre med en replik från världens främste expert på havsytans nivå Nils-Axel Mörner, men hans replik refuserades väl av SvD eftersom den var sant skeptisk...    

Die Welt: Imploding German Energiewende

Germany's march towards a fossil free society in 2050 named The Energiewende is imploding according to a recent long detailed article in Die Welt.

Orwell's 1984 Doublethink vs Copenhagen Interpretation

Here is how Orwell describes doublethink in his famous book 1984:

• Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. 
• The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he therefore knows that he is playing tricks with reality; but by the exercise of doublethink he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated. 
• The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.
• Doublethink lies at the very heart of Ingsoc, since the essential act of the Party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty.
• To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies --all this is indispensably necessary. 
• Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth. 
• Ultimately it is by means of doublethink that the Party has been able --and may, for all we know, continue to be able for thousands of years -- to arrest the course of history.
• All past oligarchies have fallen from power either because they ossified or because they grew soft. Either they became stupid and arrogant, failed to adjust themselves to changing circumstances, and were overthrown; or they became liberal and cowardly, made concessions when they should have used force, and once again were overthrown. 
• They fell, that is to say, either through consciousness or through unconsciousness. It is the achievement of the Party to have produced a system of thought in which both conditions can exist simultaneously. 
• And upon no other intellectual basis could the dominion of the Party be made permanent. If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality.

Can we see something of doublethink in our present (Western, liberal, democratic) society? Yes, climate alarmism has all the features of doublethink and The Party, and so has quantum mechanics, the incarnation of modern physics, with wave-particle duality, complementarity and denial of reality as flagrant expressions of doublethink, all according to the Copenhagen Interpretation lead by Bohr acting as the Party. 

Think of that!

Yes, Quantum Mechanics Needs to be Rebuilt

The long article Quantum Theory Rebuilt From Simple Physical Principles in Quanta Magazine tells the same old story again:

• Scientists have been using quantum theory for almost a century now, but embarrassingly they still don’t know what it means.
• Some physicists just shrug and say we have to live with the fact that quantum mechanics is weird. 
• But some researchers want to dig deeper. 
• If these efforts succeed, it’s possible that all the apparent oddness and confusion of quantum mechanics will melt away, and we will finally grasp what the theory has been trying to tell us. 
• There’s no guarantee of success — no assurance that quantum mechanics really does have something plain and simple at its heart, rather than the abstruse collection of mathematical concepts used today. 

But there is light in the tunnel: Check out 

• Real Quantum Mechanics, 
• a continuum mechanical 3d physical atom model in the spirit of Schrödinger

offering a new approach based on classical physical principles, which is not weird and can be understood, presented in the upcoming book Real Quantum Mechanics. 

As usual Lubos Motel on The Reference Frame rushes to hide the truth about the present state of quantum theory by shouting that the Quanta article is anti-quantum crackpot.   

Klimatvetenskapens Tragedi: Professorernas Svek

Sten Kaijser skriver på Klimatupplysningen att klimatprofessor Lennart Bengtson har fel när han påstår:

• Tragedien med klimatvetenskapen är att den till övermått drabbats av lekmannaintresse...har den allmänna debatten helt spårat ut då det stora flertalet som yttrar sig inte vet ett jota vad de vad de pratar om.

Jag håller med Sten Kaijser: Felet med klimatvetenskapen är inte "lekmannaintresse" utan tvärtom att den "professionella klimatvetenskapen" vid universitet, akademier och forskningsinstitut (som Lennart Bengtsson representerar) legitimerar en politiskt driven koldioxid-alarmism genom att fabricera underlag i form av teori och observation, som är medvetna rena falsarier. 

Detta är klimatprofessorernas svek mot mänskligheten och det är "lekmannaintresset" i bloggosfären (representerat av bl a Sten Kaijser) som uppdagat sveket. Domen över den professionella klimatvetenskap som svikit sin uppgift kommer att vara hård. 

Meningsutbytet mellan klimatprofessor LB och lekmannen CJ finns redovisat på min blogg. Där finns även LBs medverkan till censur av kritisk klimatmatematik. 

PS. Jag ingår numera i Klimatrealisternas Vetenskapliga Råd (tillsammans med Wibjörn Karlen och Nils-Axel Mörner). Det gör inte klimatprofessor LB.

Harvard Physicist: Climate Science in Real Trouble

Harvard physicist Willie Soon insists that the American National Academy of Science (NAS) is “100 percent corrupt” in its support of CO2 alarmism and the climate scientists who put up the content at the NAS are”really dangerous”, likening their solution to global warming to amputating a patient’s arms and legs in order to cure his headache.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is in good company with NAS in its unconditional support of the IPCC CO2 alarmism.

New Text Book: Global Warming by Doubled CO2 Not Measurable

The new text book Environmental Aspects of Gas and Oil Production by leading scientists Robertson and Chilingar sends the message based on the "adiabatic theory" of planetary surface temperature, that the warming effect of doubled atmospheric CO2 is at most 0.5 C,  that is, not measurable.

This is the same analysis as that I presented in Slaying the Sky Dragon.

Students learn from text books and text books thus represent the current state of "settled science", which by the new text book then gives no ground for CO2 alarmism.

Den Livsfarliga Svenska Modellen

Åke Sundström skriver idag tänkvärt om Kung Ingves' Livsfarliga Experiment: Negativ ränta kombinerat med en tillväxt av penningmängden på 10% och därmed en reell inflation på kanske 8% med effektiv tillväxt på 2%, dvs ett gap mellan ränta och inflation på uppåt 10%.

I en sund ekonomi är räntan någon procent högre än inflationen, medan vi nu i Sverige tvärtom har en inflation som är betydligt större (uppåt 10%) än räntan.

Detta kan inte hålla i längden, vilket Kung Ingves är den förste att predika (och här), men trots detta är det Ingves som sätter en negativ ränta och samtidigt tillåter att pengar skapas ur intet.

Hur kan det få vara så galet? Sundström jämför med Schweiz.

Se också tidigare post om Ingves misslyckade ambition att styra ett visst fiktivt inflationsmått till 2% via negativ ränta i sitt livsfarliga experiment.

Man kan också jämföra med den svenska modellen under 70-80-talet med en reell inflation på 15% betydligt större än räntan på 10%, som ledde till kollapsen på 90-talet. Men det är nu glömt.

Real Quantum Mechanics: Presentation

A draft of my talk at the upcoming 50th Anniversary of Journal of Structural Mechanics is now available for inspection:

• Structural Mechanics of the Atom.

Comments are welcome. See also the web site Real Quantum Mechanics.

Modern Physicists and Sailing

Lubos Motl with his blog The Reference Frame prides himself to be a physicist, with special expertise in string theory. In his last post, he shows complete ignorance about the physics of sailing which puts him in the same league as the Stephen Hawking he is criticizing for being illiterate about basic physics of planetary climate.

How can it be that physicists of today, who are viewed by the physics community (like Hawking) or are viewing themselves (like Motl) as carriers of deepest insight into the deepest mysteries of physics, can be totally ignorant about basic simple physics?

PS Lubos accepts a comment from me on his post, a rare event, pointing to the new theory of sailing and flying I have developed with Johan Hoffman and Johan Jansson. It will be interesting to see if Lubos will read and learn, or if the material will be too difficult for him to grasp...

Inflated "Greenhouse Effect"

A new study by Nikolov and Zeller supports the idea presented by several climate skeptics including myself that global temperature is the result of a thermodynamic gravito-thermal effect setting a lapse rate (decrease of temperature with altitude) of about 6.5 C/km and an effect of radiation to outer space occuring from an altitude of about 5 km (on rough average). The study reported at length on WND is published in Environment Pollution and Climate Change:

• New Insights on the Physical Nature of the Atmospheric Greenhouse Effect Deduced from an Empirical Planetary Temperature Model.

The study shows that the basic postulate of CO2 alarmism of a "greenhouse effect" from radiation alone without the gravito-thermal effect, gives CO2 a much inflated role as control knob for global temperature: Warming of 3 C upon doubling of CO2 as a 10 fold inflation of a possible real effect of at most 0.3 C, so small that it cannnot be observed and distinguished from natural variations and thus practically zero.

Monckton as lukewarmer skeptic of course immediately jumps in and questions Nikolov and Zeller instead of acknowledging elements of truth in their analysis, thus effectively supporting CO2 alarmism rather than the opposite. Sorry to say, I have met the same type of reaction, from also Spencer and Curry...maybe skeptics need alarmism to have a role to play and thus readily spend lots of energy on internal fight...

Leibniz said that it is always more interesting/productive to seek what is right in what someone is saying, than what is wrong; it is always possible to find a fault, maybe a missing comma, without properly  understanding anything, while properly understanding what is right requires more intelligence and real insight. Stupid people can find errors, but only clever people can find possibilites.

China Daily News reports that, as an effect of CO2 alarmism, France plans to forbid the use of fossil fuel driven vehicles by 2040...if not earlier...China prepares for heavy demand in Europe of electrical cars charged by solar panels all made in China boosted by massive fossil fuel...

Life as Sexual Mind-Body System

Here is a simple reflection on the eternal mind-body problem:

The basic idea is that (at least higher forms of) living organisms consist of a mind-body system, where the mind carries a representation/model of the exterior + organism supported by sensory input from the body. Part of the mind appears as consciousness carried by sensations/feelings over basically a range from pain to pleasure. To be conscious thus basically is to experience pain or pleasure as hunger or sex, or more or less sublimated sensations from music, arts, poetry, science, sports,...

To give a robot life it is with this perspective necessary to give the robot the capacity of feeling pain and pleasure, with pain leading away from destruction and the ultimate of sexual pleasure driving reproduction. 

To give a robot life, it thus appears necessary to give the robot the capacity to helplessly fall in love and experience highest sexual pleasure together with one (or more) other robot(s) (of the same or opposite sex). Will this be possible? Is it desirable?

Another aspect on the role of experiencing pain (and pleasure): A tree is not equipped with a central nervous system capable of feeling pain, because it cannot move away from what causes the pain, or move closer to pleasure. In other words, our mind is coming along with our legs.

Compare: Why walking help us think.

Hawking, Venus, Trump and Modern Physics

Media reports the shocking news that

• STEPHEN HAWKING SAYS EARTH WILL BECOME AS HOT AS VENUS BECAUSE OF DONALD TRUMP'S PARIS ACCORD DECISION

Hawking is supposed to be one of the greatest now living physicists (the greatest?) with deep insights into the construction of the Universe comparable (or beyond?) to those of Einstein (and Newton of course).

But Hawking's statement shows an even more deep ignorance/illiteracy of basic elementary facts of physics: The surface of Venus is so much hotter (about 450 C) than that of the Earth (about 15 C) because the atmosphere is 100 times thicker and the atmospheric pressure 100 times higher, which by elementary thermodynamics comes with high temperature (since the atmosphere is also opaque). 

Hawking's statement shows that he does not understand basic physics and thermodynamics. It is then difficult to not ask the question if Hawking really better understands less basic facts of physics, such as physics of black holes as his specialty? 

How is it possible that a (the?) leading now living representative of modern physics shows a deep ignorance about basic physics? 

What does that say about the status of modern physics? What does that say about the progress of modern physics concerning the main current topics of multiversa, black holes, string theory...?

What do you say?

Or is Hawking deliberately misleading the general public because of some hidden political agenda?

Wind Energie Needs 100% Back Up

A new study shows that wind energy needs 100% back up from conventional power (coal, gas, nuclear, hydro) and delivers less than 20% of installed power over time.

The Weak Science behind CO2 Alarmism to be Exposed

Washington Post reports:

• EPA chief pushing governmentwide effort to question climate change science.

This means that the very weak scientific support of fossil fuel CO2 alarmism will finally be exposed to the world and the dooms day bubble will collapse. All poor people can now look forward to a brighter future with improved living conditions from cheap fossil fuel without dangerous climate impact:  New York Times reports that 1600 new coal plants are about to be built around the world.

Compare with this new frontier research discovery giving new perspective and insight into human condition and global warming.

Physics as Oscillating Systems

To get an overview to prepare entering into realQM it may be illuminating to recall that the mathematical model of a physical system which has permanence over time in the form of oscillations between two different states, typically takes the form:

• $i\dot\varphi + A\varphi = 0$      (1)

where $\varphi =\varphi_1 +i\varphi_2$ is a complex-valued function with $\varphi_1(x,t)$ and $\varphi_2(x,t)$ representing the different states being real-valued functions of a 3d space coordinate $x$ and a time coordinate $t$, with $i$ the imaginary unit and the dot signifying differentiation with respect to time, and $A\varphi \equiv A\varphi_1+iA\varphi_2$ with $A$ a symmetric operator acting on real-valued functions. We understand that (1) is a condensed complex-valued form of the following system on real-valued form:

• $\dot\varphi_1 =-A\varphi_2$, $\dot\varphi_2 = A\varphi_1$   (2)

where the oscillatory nature is exhibited: $\varphi_1$ changes with input from $A\varphi_2$ and $\varphi_2$ changes with input from $A\varphi_1$. We understand that there is nothing magical in the complex-valued form (1) as it is only shorthand for the real-valued system (2) simply expressing oscillation between two states.

With different operators $A$ the equation (1) (or system (2)) covers:

1. Physics (Harmonic oscillator): $A = identity$, $\varphi_2$ position, $\varphi_1$ velocity,
2. Electro-magnetics (Maxwell’s Equations): $A =\nabla\times$, $\varphi_2=E$ electrical field, $\varphi_1=B$ magnetic field,
3. Mechanics (Vibrating Elastic Plate): $A =\Delta$, $\varphi_2$ displacement velocity, $\varphi_1$ moment,
4. Chemistry (Foxes and Rabbits): $A=identity$, $\varphi_1$ and $\varphi_2$ species densities,
5. Quantum Mechanics (Schrödinger’s Equation): $A=H$ with $H$ Hamiltonian, $\varphi$ wave function.

We see that (1) encompasses the basic models of physics with quantum mechanics on the same footing as classical mechanics and electro-magnetics. We see oscillations between kinetic and potential/elastic energy, between species densities (foxes and rabbits), and in particular between electric and magnetic fields giving perspective on the oscillation between the real and imaginary parts of the wave function of quantum mechanics.

Hopefully, this can help to reduce the mystery of the complex form of Schrödinger's equation and give incentive to check out realQM.

The basic feature of (2) obtained by multiplication of the first equation by $\varphi_1$ (or $-\dot\varphi_2$) and the second by $\varphi_2$ (or $\dot\varphi_1$) and addition followed by integration in space, is conservation in time of

• $\int (\varphi_1^2+\varphi_2^2)dx$,
• $\int (\varphi_1A\varphi_1+\varphi_2A\varphi_2)dx$,

capturing oscillation between two states; when $\varphi_1$ is big $\varphi_2$ is small, and vice versa.

Inviscid fluid mechanics can also be formulated as (a generalisation of ) (2):

• $\dot v + \nabla p= 0$, $\dot p + \nabla\cdot v=0$ with $v$ velocity and $p$ pressure.

Popular Standard View of stdQM

Philip Ball is a writer of popular science and in his latest contribution in Aeon he propagates yet another time the standard view that quantum mechanics does not make sense, as vividly witnessed and acknowledged by all great physicists:

• Why, then, is it still so common to find talk of quantum mechanics defying logic and generally messing with reality? 
• We might have to out some of the blame on the Danish physicist Niels Bohr. He was probably the deepest thinker about the meaning of quantum theory among its founding pioneers, and his intuitions were usually right. 
• But during the 1920s and ’30s, Bohr drove a lasting wedge between the quantum and classical worlds. They operate according to quite different principles, he said, and we simply have to accept that. 

Ball then starts out to fix this major defect of modern physics, something all the great physicists failed to do:

• Now we have that theory. Not a complete one, mind you, and the partial version still doesn’t make the apparent strangeness of quantum rules go away. But it does enable us to see why those rules lead to the world we experience it allows us to move past the confounding either/or choice of Bohr’s complementarity. 
• The boundary between quantum and classical turns out not to be a chasm after all. A ball has a position, or a speed, or a mass. I can measure those things, and the things I measure are the properties of the ball. What more is there to say? 

Yes, there is more to say, and that is said as realQM.

Restart of Icarus Simulation AB

My consulting company Icarus Simulation AB together with Johan Jansson is now being restructured  to take on new challenges in computational simulation.

Icarus Simulation also offers unified reformed mathematics education from early school to advanced university level combining formal and computational mathematics into a basic tool of the computer age with wide areas of application.

Customers are welcome.

realQM: Helium Ground State -2.9036 = Success

Computation with realQM in spherical coordinates with azimuthal symmetry on a mesh with 200 points in radial direction and 100 in polar angle (on my iPad), gives the value -2.9036... (Hartree) for the ground state energy of Helium in good agreement the observed value and benchmark computations with stdQM (here and here):

• Pekeris (1959): -2.903724376    (best stdQM/Hylleraas with 1078 parameters)
• Koki (2009): -2.9042 (in supposedly better agreement with observation).

realQM offers a new model of the atom, which has a physical meaning in classical continuum mechanical terms and which is computable. The first test of realQM, beyond the one-electron Hydrogen atom where realQM coincides with the standard Schrödinger equation, is Helium with two electrons, and it seems that realQM passes this test successfully! The step from one to two is huge while the step from two to many may be smaller...so if realQM works for Helium, then...

Wikipedia gives the observed value −2.90338583(13) with reference:

• Kramida, A., Ralchenko, Yu., Reader, J., and NIST ASD Team. "NIST Atomic Spectra Database Ionization Energies Data". Gaithersburg, MD: NIST. 

The difference with Pekeris is significant: stdQM does not appear to fit better with observation than realQM...maybe less... Wikipedia handles the discrepancy by the following hand-waving:

• It should be noted that one needs to include relativistic and quantum electrodynamic corrections to get full agreement with experiment to spectroscopic accuracy.

PS1 1st ionisation energy as observed is supposed to be 0.903569881854.

PS2  Nakashima and Nakasuji reports -2.903 724 377 034 119 598 311 159 245 194 404 446 696 905 37 with 40 correct decimals, still different from observation -2.903385...

Trumps Reason to Withdraw from the Paris Accord

When President Trump declared that the US will pull out from the Paris Climate Accord, he did not repeat his earlier analysis that CO2 climate alarmism is a hoax without scientific support.

He could have done that on very good grounds, but he did not get into the question whether CO2 emissions from human activity is a real threat to the planet or not, which some climate skeptics regret.

Trump simply referred to the fact that even if all commitments of a Paris Accord where fully fulfilled, or more, the total effect according to the very dogmas of CO2 climate alarmism, would be at most 0.2 C reduction of global warming at the end of the century, that is zero effect. His logic was that it would be immoral to deliberately deny poor people access to cheap fossil fuel and keep them in poverty, if the effect on climate would be zero.

This shows the true dilemma of climate alarmism: If there is a real threat, then the planned measures to avoid catastrophe are totally inadequate and thus meaningless and then immoral by causing human suffering.  If there is no real threat, then the planned measures are even more meaningless and immoral.

This dilemma is covered up by main stream media selling climate alarmism, but comes out in the  true face of climate alarmism as expressed by Joachim Schellnhuber, climate advisor to Merkel and the Pope, asking for a "great transformation" of human civilisation. This is something completely different from buying an electrical car.  Think of that.

PS When Scott Pruitt as new Director of EPA and chief architect together with Mylon Ebell of Trumps CO2 agenda and decision to withdraw from the Paris Accord, was asked if he knew what  Trump was "thinking about climate",  Pruitt responded that frankly he did not know and that he had not discussed this question with Trump. To Pruitt and Ebell (and to the world) it is enough to know that their agenda is supported by Trump. This fits with Trump's decision to refrain from repeating his claim that climate alarmism is a "hoax" (which is impossible to prove), because the Paris Accord is meaningless, "hoax" or not.

Kutta Condition, Gods Finger and Secret of Flight

The New Theory Flight revealing the secret of flight (article1, article2, book and website) is now backed by new computations in realistic geometry to be presented next week at the High-Lift Prediction Workshop III.

At this historic moment, let me recall the The Old Theory of Flight by Kutta-Zhukovsky presented
around 1905, which is still the accepted text book explanation of the generation of lift by an airfoil.
The Old Theory states that an airfoil is capable of generating lift because it has a sharp trailing edge, which is supposed to force potential flow without lift separating on the upper surface of the wing to instead separate at the trailing edge and then generate lift by causing a redirection of the airflow, as illustrated in this generic text book figure illustrating the Kutta condition:  

The Old Theory contains two unphysical effects, which happen to balance and then miraculously give a physical result = lift. The two unphysical effects are:

1. The start is 2d potential flow without lift separating on top of the wing. 
2. By making the trailing edge sharp, the flow is forced to separate at trailing edge and then give lift. 

The New Theory shows that 2d flow is unphysical because real flow contains completely crucial 3d features.

To believe that real flow can be forced to separate at the trailing edge by making it sharp, is to give yourself access to the action of a God's finger of unlimited power.

In numerics you can play God and set the velocity zero wherever you want, but that is simulated virtual reality and not real physics. It is like putting a needle into a voodo doll believing it will have an effect on a real person. This is voodo-physics.

Yet, this is the text book explanation of lift. To test, ask your favourite aero-dynamicist:

1. Why do airfoils have sharp trailing edge? 
2. What happens if the trailing edge is not sharp but more or less rounded? 

After this experience, you will be more motivated to dig into the New Theory of Flight.

PS The book will now be updated to find an efficient publisher.

realQM Excited States

I have updated realQM with a section on

• Excited States

The interested reader will there find that realQM offers a natural way to model excitation of electrons in an outermost shell by replacing the electrons in inner shells and the kernel by an effective kernel of a certain radius and reduced charge, thus relating in principle excitation of all atoms to that of Hydrogen.

In realQM electron wave functions have local support and occupy different domains i space, which gives the model with an effective kernel a direct physical meaning, while in stdQM wave functions have global support and precise allocation of electrons to different shells is impossible.

Classical vs Quantum Physics According to Lubos

Lubos Motl as devoted soldier in the army of Bohr-Born-Heisenberg is preaching the Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics and anybody raising any doubt will be subject to scorn, the most recent victim being Christopher Fuch as expressed in the post: Qbism: Fuch vs Bohr+Motl. Here is Lubos credo from the post:

• Classical physics allows you to assume that some things objectively exist. You may make true statements about the objects in Nature but there are underlying objects and all the true statements are just reflections of something that is out there.
• Quantum mechanics allows you to assign truth values or probabilities (a continuous version of the truth value) to propositions about Nature, too. However, you can no longer assume that the true statements that you may derive from quantum mechanics are reflections of the objective reality.
• That makes sense. Quantum mechanics is an analogy of mathematical logic that allows you to prove and derive new valid propositions out of some assumed ones, the axioms.

No Lubos, it does not make sense; if quantum mechanics is not a "reflection of the objective reality", then it is fantasy and nothing but fantasy, and then it is not science but only tragedy.

If you seek for a quantum mechanics as "a reflection of objective reality", then realQM may be what you are looking for. Try it out!

Schrödinger: Do Electrons Think?

Schrödinger's equation is the basic basic mathematical model of quantum mechanics. It was first formulated for the Hydrogen atom with one electron in terms of a wave function $\psi (x,t)$ depending on a 3d space coordinate $x$ and a time coordinate $t$, with $\vert\psi (x,t)\vert^2$ representing electron charge density at $(x,t)$. Schrödinger's equation expresses stationarity of an associated energy functional and the ground state is defined as the charge density of minimal energy.  

Since the agreement between model and observation was perfect for Hydrogen, Schrödinger's equation was greeted as the most stunning triumph of the human mind since Newton's law of gravitation.

The generalisation of Schrödinger's equation to atoms with $N > 1$ electrons presented itself
as a formal extension into a wave function $\psi (x_1,...,x_N)$ depending on $N$ 3d space coordinates $x_j$, altogether $3N$ space coordinates.  But such a multi-d wave function could no longer be interpreted as a charge density in physical 3d space,  only as the probability to find at any given time electron $j$ at position $x_j$ for $j=1,...,N,$ as if the electrons as particles were randomly jumping around. This was coined the Copenhagen Interpretation of Bohr-Born-Heisenberg which took over the scene against heavy protests from Schrödinger and Einstein among others.

Schrödinger phrased his protest in many ways and in particular as the question do electrons think? Schrödinger argued that if electrons jump around randomly as in the Copenhagen Interpretation, then they cannot be viewed to think.  But if electrons instead in a deterministic way react upon forces so as to minimise energy, then they can be viewed to think in some sense. Schrödinger would thus give his answer as: Yes, electrons do think! as a protest to the randomness without thought of the Copenhagen Interpretation.

This connects to Descartes "I think and therefore I am (exist)". With the same logic for the electron, physical existence would be linked to thinking and so electrons do exist because they think and do not jump randomly without thought.

What do you think?